Courage, young artist; this is an escape from the schools: this is full of the bold self-confidence of real genius.

You had no Nicot--no Mervale--at your elbow when this image of true beauty was conceived!" Charmed back to his art by this unlooked-for praise, Glyndon replied modestly, "I thought well of my design till this morning; and then I was disenchanted of my happy persuasion." "Say, rather, that, unaccustomed to continuous labour, you were fatigued with your employment." "That is true.

Shall I confess it?
I began to miss the world without.

It seemed to me as if, while I lavished my heart and my youth upon visions of beauty, I was losing the beautiful realities of actual life.

And I envied the merry fisherman, singing as he passed below my casement, and the lover conversing with his mistress." "And," said Zanoni, with an encouraging smile, "do you blame yourself for the natural and necessary return to earth, in which even the most habitual visitor of the Heavens of Invention seeks his relaxation and repose?
Man's genius is a bird that cannot be always on the wing; when the craving for the actual world is felt, it is a hunger that must be appeased.